{"id":1182,"date":"2008-09-14T13:11:37","date_gmt":"2008-09-14T13:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/language-the-first-casualty-of-war\/"},"modified":"2008-09-14T13:11:37","modified_gmt":"2008-09-14T13:11:37","slug":"language-the-first-casualty-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2008\/09\/language-the-first-casualty-of-war\/","title":{"rendered":"LANGUAGE, THE FIRST CASUALTY OF WAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Missing from most of the commentary on the brief war in Georgia was anymention of the contorted use language in Western news coverage andopinion writing.&nbsp; While there have been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chroniclesmagazine.org\/?p=716\"  target=\"_blank\" title=\"some reasonable observers\">some reasonable observers<\/a> discussing the  conflict in Georgia, most mainstream reporting and commentary have persistently  described the conflict as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/08092008\/postopinion\/opedcolumnists\/raping_georgia_123664.htm\"  target=\"_blank\">&ldquo;rape&quot; of Georgia<\/a> in which its capital has been put <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/08\/21\/AR2008082103109.html\"  target=\"_blank\" title=\"under \">under &ldquo;siege&rdquo;<\/a> as part of a Russian <em>expansionist<\/em> effort (which is just part of a supposed pattern of <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB121909365007350805.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\"  target=\"_blank\" title=\"Russian \">Russian &ldquo;expansionism&rdquo;<\/a>).<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.takimag.com\/blogs\/article\/language_the_first_casualty_of_war\/\"  target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missing from most of the commentary on the brief war in Georgia was anymention of the contorted use language in Western news coverage andopinion writing.&nbsp; While there have been some reasonable observers discussing the conflict in Georgia, most mainstream reporting and commentary have persistently described the conflict as the &ldquo;rape&quot; of Georgia in which its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary-archives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}